Actors, baseball legends on Madoff client list

Celebrities, baseball legends, relatives named as Bernard Madoff clients on list of thousands (The 162-page document filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan named Columbia University, legendary baseball player Sandy Koufax and Madoff’s attorney Ira Lee Sorkin as some of the clients.)

NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. Actor Kevin Bacon. World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein. All three have at least one thing in common: Their names appear on a list of several thousand clients who lost money investing with Bernard Madoff. The list has been made public in a court filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

20-year-old missing children case solved

Tips lead to arrest of accused abductor

Christi and Bobby Baskin, abducted about 20 years ago by their grandparents and raised in California as Jennifer and Jonathan Bunting, may soon be reunited with their extended family after their maternal grandfather, Marvin Maple, was arrested Monday night after acquaintances alerted authorities to his whereabouts. Maple, who now goes by the name John Bunting, had told people he was wanted after news of the case was reported here on Jan. 12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAN DIEGO — A man who authorities say abducted two of his grandchildren from Tennessee almost 20 years ago was arrested Monday night in San Jose and the children have been found.

Both Parties Move to Aid Homeowners

“Most people recognize that housing itself is at the root of the current economic downturn,” Senator Mitch McConnell said. “We should fix this problem before we fix anything else.”

WASHINGTON — Four months after Congress tried to rescue the economy with a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry, Republicans and Democrats are suddenly competing to bail out financially struggling homeowners.

Iraqi death researcher censured

Estimates vary on the number of Iraqi civilians killed since 2003 An academic whose estimates of civilian deaths during the Iraq war sparked controversy has been criticised for not fully co-operating with an inquiry. Gilbert Burnham said in the Lancet medical journal in 2006 that 650,000 civilians had died since 2003 – a figure far higher than other estimates.

‘Dozens dead’ in S Lanka fighting

Unverified footage said to show government troops firing towards Tamil Tiger positions on Monday was aired on Sri Lankan TV station Derana

The United Nations says that 52 civilians have been killed in the past day of fighting in Sri Lanka.

Missing New York City College Student Found, Danger Overblown

A college student who had been missing for more than 10 days notified police that she was alive after running away from school, according to a report in Newsday.